A special edition of Ultima IV for the Atari ST by cb-fgc
This modified version of Ultima IV for the ST/Falcon 030 is completely free of charge and includes the following changes:
- LZW compression has been removed for faster loading and replaced with Speed Packer 3
- Multilingual English/French with the French translation from Ubi Soft fully fixed
- Restored unused music track for the main menu and Lord British Castle
- Fits on one floppy disk, no more floppy disk swapping messages
- Fixed for hard drive
- New intro/character creation graphics converted from the Sharp x68000 version
- Additional music tracks from Ultima III
- Cheat/debug menu accessible with the numpad '*' key
- Exit any towne, village or castle directly with the ESC key
- Save in all cities, villages and castles, with the exception of Lord British's castle.
- Reload your previous save with the numpad '-' key.
- Display your progression in each virtue (aka. karma) with numpad key 9.
- Display character statistics directly with numpad keys 1-8, and main inventory with 0
- Shake screen effect when you hit or get hit in combat and when you fire your ship's canons
- Correct music tempo in PAL mode
- There is now music when you talk to NPCs
- Dungeon 2D rooms now have a correct palette
- Dungeon 3D graphics tweaked and updated
- No more mouse cursor artefacts when peering a gem
- You can now camp in cities (not as effective as renting a room at the inns)
- You can now camp while aboard a ship (with a brand new map)
- You can no longer disembark from a ship in the middle of the ocean (this was used as an exploit in the original game to use the camp function while aboard a ship, and is now useless)
- You can now walk in shallow water (it is as slow as walking through hills). If you are attacked by a land monster, you will fight on the swamp combat map
- New medieval font (from Demon's Winter)
- No more distracting green colour font for character names
- Actions are now turn based, turns do not pass after 5 seconds of inactivity
- The game now asks if you want to exit a city when you reach its border
- When talking to Hawkwind, the music played is the Avatar theme instead of the merchant theme
- Smaller and better looking mouse cursor
- Includes Hythloth dungeon fix from https://www.moddb.com/games/ultima-iv-quest-of-the-avatar/downloads/hythloth-fix
- Balloon can now land on swamp, grass, trees and hill tiles and is completely controlable whitout drifting
- Ultima V Shop signs added for all shops
- Ultima V furniture added in all inhabited places (cosmetic change only, none are searchable)
- Rebalanced karma loss/gain (slightly lower loss and higher gain)
- Added roads like in Ultima V - they allow to travel more easily between some towns
- No more bumping into NPCs while exploring cities
- Free to download!
Download, here
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